A review by northernatlas
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets by Graham Farmelo

2.0

While the objective of this book was to indicate how helpful and harmonious the use of mathematical equations, in lieu of data-driver formulas, can and have been in the history of physics, this book spent the vast majority of its lengthy page count on a Who’s Who of theory through the ages. With such a focus on history and citation, it’s a shame this book was not better marketed to explain what it truly is. It didn’t meet expectations (how could it?) and it’s historical focus was quite dry.